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, IVILLIAM E. SIMONDS, OF CANTON, CONNECTICUT.

SHIRT-CUFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 446,367, dated February 10, 1891.

Application filed December 10, 1890. Serial No. 374,196. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. SIMONDS, of Canton, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shirt-Cuffs, of which the followingis a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 isa view of a piece of fabric whereof to form a shirt-cuff embodying my improvements, doubled into two plies, and these plies united along a certain line by stitches. Fig. 2 is a view of the fabric shown in Fig. 1 after it is turned inside out and the ravel ends therebycarriedinside. Fig. 3 i-sa View of the fabric shown in Fig. 2 with the plies flattened nearly into their proper position and all united or fastened together face to face. The plies are not shown flattened quite into their final and proper position, because if so shown it would be very difficult to distinguish the different plies one from the other. Fig. 4 is a view the same as Fig. 3, except that it shows a modified method of sewing the plies together.

In all the, foregoing figures the fabric is shown thicker than it really is in order to make the manner of folding more manifest to the eye. v

Figs. 5, (5, and '7 illustrate a mode of applying the improvement, which will be hereinafter described.

The object of the improvement is the production of a so-called false cuif fora shirtsleeve of more than a single ply, having each of its four edges a selvage edge or a folded edge, and the whole cuff of uniform thickness throughout, so that there may be uniformity of pressure on all its parts when it is passed through an ordinary ironing-machine, with a consequent lengthening of the life and durability of the cuff as compared with cuffs of unequal thickness thus ordinarily ironed.

In order to describe the practical application of my invention,let it be supposed that it is desired to produce a cutf substantially ten inches long by four inches wide, having the end edges of the cuff selvage edges and the side edges folded edges. The length of the cufiten inches-determines the width of the fabric to be .used as ten inches, which fabric practically needs to be made specially for the purpose. Having then a suitable fabricsuch as linenten inches wide, of indefinite length, and with both edges selvaged, there are to be cut oif twelve inches in length thereof.

The letter a denotes the fabric, and a a the selvage edges. The fabric is doubled and united, as by sewing, face to face along the line Z) parallel with and substantially two inches from each end of the fabric, as shown in Fig. 1. The two ends of the fabric not being selvaged are liable to rave], and I will term them ravel ends. Now the fabric is turned inside out, as the phrase is, which will bring the ravel ends inside, as shown in Fig. 2. Now the plies are flattened upon each other. This flattening is illustrated approximately in Fig.3. In reality the plies are flattened close together with the ravel ends just touching the insides of the folded edges. Then a line of stitching, as indicated by dotted line in Fig. 3, is run entirely around the cuff, near the periphery, which fastens the three plies together face to face, and, aside from the button-holes, the cuff is finished. The end edges of the cuff are selvage edges, the side edges are folded edges, the ravel ends are inside, and the cuff is of uniform thickness throughout.

If more than three plies of fabric are de sired in such a cuff, they can be had, preferably, by using separate additional plies inside corresponding in the position of theirselvage edges withthe selvage edges of the fabric a.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4. thesewing together along the line b is omitted; but

the fabric is folded the same as in Fig. 3, and

the three plies are fastened together face to face by lines of sewing, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. at.

Figs. 5, 6, and 7 illustrate the application of this improvement to the production of a cuff of fourplies substantially ten inches long and four inches wide, in which each one of the four edges of the cuff is a folded edge and the whole cuff is of uniform thickness throughout.

Fig. 5 represents a piece of suitable fabric twenty inches long and eight inches wide. The letters 5 denote selvage edges, and the letters 1' denote ravel ends. The first step is to fold the ravel ends toward each other at the dotted lines, Fig. 5, so that the ravel ends long by four inches wide.

are fastened together face to face, as by meet, as shown in Fig. 6, the folded fabric being now in two plies and substantially ten inches long by eight inches wide. The next step is to fold the selvage edges toward each other at the dotted lines, Fig. 6, till they meet, as shown in Fig. 7, the folded fabric being now in four plies and substantially ten inches Now the four plies stitching along the dotted lines of Fig. 7 and, with the exception of the button-holes, the cuff is finished. Each edge is a folded edge, and the whole is of uniform thickness throughout.

In order to attain that uniformity of thickness which is the'prime object of this invention, two things are necessary: first, a fabric (preferably with two opposite selvage edges) of a width predetermined by a desired dimension of the en ff, and, second, that the ravel ends be carried inside of outer plies. Within these limitations fabrics may be folded in different ways and the improvement be attained.

I claim as myimprovement- A cuff of uniform thickness throughout, comprising three or more plies of fabric, the ravel ends of the fabric being inside of the outer plies and all the plies united face to face, all substantially as described, and for 0 the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM E. SIMONDS.

\Vitnesses: "1

S; G. HOPKINS, I LoUIs G. J ULIHN. 

